In the game of Starcraft, there is a concept of Gold Minerals in which there is only one in each game. The gold minerals themselves are generally in the middle of the map and are away from your more comfortable “blue” minerals. You have to work to get to them, and when you get to them, you need to defend them. It’s not an easy position to hold, and generally, there is much back and…
A bit broken is still broken. There is no fully broken – it either is or it isn’t. Cracks are broken. Fractures are broken. They are simply giving you time before they break further. You can either start fixing it now, or wait until it’s fully broken, and completely useless.
Our phones show us when they need a charge and we dutifully find an outlet, tv, computer, anything that can give them a boost. We set them aside, letting them rest, letting them reinvigorate and come back ready for more. We do this for our phones. When was the last time you rushed to find a charging station for yourself? When you rushed to get somewhere, shut off all incoming notifications and spent the next…
Nothing. Unless you let it.
It used to be that you could take your entire codebase, drop it on a laptop, and code to heart’s content without having to worry about online connections and wifi connections. Now, you have to be connected all the time to get at your data, to validate the service from another partner. Coding Offline, in a cave, by yourself is a thing of the past. Mock frameworks, services and localized databases can enable you to…